The iPhone Poem Flow App: Poetry in Motion

I’m pleased to announce the release of Poem Flow, an app I worked on in the Fall for TextTelevision. Poem Flow is an iPhone poetry e-reader, but it’s no ordinary reader. Lines of poetry are rendered as animations of movement and transitions.

The image to the left really doesn’t really capture the dynamic experience or reading the flow. At first I was a little skeptical of the concept, but I soon found myself more immersed in what I was reading, and thus had a more meaningful experience.

I was responsible for architecting the flow rendering engine. The dancing words and lines of each poem are meticulously choreographed beforehand with scripts, which in turn are translated into motion. I expect this platform to continue to evolve, and as you know with my work with Iyeoka, poetry has a special place in my heart.